Sherlock Holmes

no, other than being a classic it has not won any modern awards

Funny as in strange?

He kept his tobacco in a Persian slipper and tacked his letters to the mantle of the fireplace with a jack-knife.

He injected a 7% solution of cocaine. He also experimented on himself and friends using poisons.

He would be restless at times, and lethargic at other times, lying about the flat in his dressing gown.

He liked to tease Watson 1) about Watson's observations and incorrect deductions, 2) by saying things seemingly out of the blue, such as "You've been in Afghanistan, I perceive," to get a surprised reaction, and then state point by point how he arrived at that correct deduction 3) about Watson's writing style, making tales out of what should be lessons in detection.

The narrator of most Sherlock Holmes stories is Dr. Watson

I do not know how many original copies of the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual including the first publication of 'A Study in Scarlet' sold, but my best guess would be around 30,000.

The link below reports there are only 31 known copies of that original publication in existence.

He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which shot out between two keen, grey eyes, set closely together and sparkling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed. Though young, his long back was already bowed, and he walked with a forward thrust of his head and a general air of peering benevolence.

They first met when Professor Moriarty showed up at 221B Baker Street to entreat Holmes to give up his pursuit of Moriarty's organization, but they met again at Reichenbach Falls where they fought to the death.

It means that he isn't going to worry about it

The whole quote goes like this:

"And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home, and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience."

This is straight from a wikipedia article: In A Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson assesses Holmes's abilities thus: # Knowledge of Literature.-Nil. # Knowledge of Philosophy.-Nil. # Knowledge of Astronomy.-Nil. # Knowledge of Politics.-Feeble. # Knowledge of Botany.-Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. # Knowledge of Geology.-Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks, has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them. # Knowledge of Chemistry.-Profound. # Knowledge of Anatomy.-Accurate, but unsystematic. # Knowledge of Sensational Literature.-Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century. # Plays the violin well. # Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman. # Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

The one piece of confirming empirical evidence came from slamming his cane down on the ground in front of the shop that backed on the building housing of the Red Headed League I thought the solution to the mystery was a good deal of evidence for Holmes to look at and see who do it

Sherlock was extremely smart, had a keen eye for details, could recreate a scene in his mind just by looking at the traces left, had a fantastic memory, could play the violin, loved to study chemistry, knew how to box, could disguise himself very well and had good acting skills.

Holmes does this type of deduction often in the stories as he wants to find out as much as he can about the problem at hand. He needs to independently verify anything he is told, so he can definitively prove his case. Also, he apparently wants to give his client a sense that the case is in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing.

Hmm well he is very well known in my opinion. He's talented, smart, brilliant and altogether mastermind...although he doesn't have very good feelings. Watson described him as a robot. Sad, sad. And not as smart as his brother, either.

he was a very strong built person though old.

he was very aggressive in nature. he used to fight with everyone.

he had studied medicine in India.

he kept strange pets like a cheetah and a baboon

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. . . a huge man framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross-bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and the high thin fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.

He never "caught" him in the sense he was tried and convicted, rather Moriarty fell to his death on 4 May 1891 after wrestling with Holmes on a precarious ledge at Reichenbach falls. At the time, it was presumed that Holmes had fallen as well.

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle takes place during the Christmas season and has a Christmas Goose as a key part of the adventure.

Judging by your question I am assuming that this answer is for the Novice Christmas quiz??? lol

note from han8661: the cardboard box does as well

The story is about a stolen gem which the thief hides in the crop of a goose which is eaten at Christmas.

In "A Study in Scarlet", it was his left shoulder. In "The Sign of the Four", it was mentioned that his leg gave him trouble during inclement weather becasue it had been shot and it gave him a limp. In other stories, it was only mentioned that he had been shot but not where the injury was.

Sherlock Holmes employed deductive reasoning not only in the cases he was working on but in his everyday life. He would gather all the facts and blend his knowledge of science, medicine, literature and psychology to arrive at a conclusion. If it was not the right conclusion he would use this to grow closer to the most obvious outcome (process of elimination).

It is during the case Watson chronicled as "The 'Gloria Scott' " that Holmes first thought of being a detective. The exact date is not known, but most scholars agree it was the mid to late 1870's.

Dr. Roylott was bitten by the "speckled band" which was the snake that he owned

The exact date is unclear, but most scholars agree with the text that says: "It was early in April, in the year [18]83." -- John H. Watson, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'

The Red-headed league was dissolved because they have already finished digging the tunnel in the Bank. They no longer needed Wilson to stay in the office to disguise John Clay's absence while he was off digging the tunnel.
The red headed league was only a distraction to get Mr.Wilson away from his pawnshop so that the thieves could dig the hole. After the hole was dug, there was no need for the red headed league so they closed it

Referring to the original story's authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes sported a brain capable of arguably the most astounding deductions of any fictional detective in the history of controversial media. He made minute observations which he later transformed into facts.

Sherlock Holmes was unfortunately addicted to cocaine and was a heavy tobacco smoker. Sherlock Holmes had no interest for politics, astronomy or geology. He lacked trust for woman and was not interested in relationships with them.

If you are talking about the stick belonging to Dr. Mortimer in The Hound of the Baskervilles, he made several brilliant deductions:

1. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer served in the Charing Cross Hospital, as on the stick the following is inscribed: 'friends of the C.C.H'. This is proved right when they check in Watson's medical directory.

2. He deduced Dr. Mortimer left Charing Cross Hospital from the date on the stick.

3. He deduced Dr. Mortimer was either a house-surgeon or a house-physician because a well-established staff physician would not likely leave the hospital.

4. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer's dog was larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff by closely examining the space between the teeth mark on the stick.

5. He surmised "there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded . . ."